marshall rosenberg

intro’d to nonviolent communication via Amy..

reintro’d when upworthy posted this video on fb:

Nonviolent Communication – a Brief Introduction

2010:

trying to see the needs, what’s alive, in the other person

5 min – the kind of peace talks we have are more like arguments.. trying to come up with some sort of compromise..

i’m not naive.. see the violence.. but what others don’t see is the people underneath that..

i see a different world than the people see on the tv…

i see the suffering that goes on … but i’m working with people all over the world that say it doesn’t have to be that way.

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2006:

sounds like Quinn‘s descriptions of whiteness…

The situation is deeply miserable, even for those living slightly higher up on the shit pile. The biggest two indicators that someone will commit suicide in America are the two boxes they check on the census that are supposed to confer the most safety from misery, and the most advantage one could have in our society: white, and male. What could accuse privilege of failure more than seeking one’s own violent end?

non-violent communication helps us get back to a more natural state

8 min – if we knew how to speak this way – we wouldnt’ have to kill each other

seeing what’s alive in a person

the way we see the human ness is by seeing the needs without the enemy mentality. it requires seeing what’s fully alive in this other person

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communication ness…